Strikeforce is like a cockroach that won't die. They are promising a stacked card in January though. Hopefully, that means Cormier vs. Overeem with the winner being #1 contender for the HW title. Anything less would be uncivilized.

although if you asked me while I'm watching the promos for the fight, I'd tell you Bonnar can pull the upset since they do a pretty good job of selling it but you snap out of it immediately as soon as it ends

Yea they keep pushing "the biggest upset ever" card so much it's been jinxed. I see it going a few rounds though..i'll say 3rd round ko. Silva will want it to go more than one round to entertain his home crowd. But im sure he'd love a KO.

TUF ratings blow so I guess they're going to try to up it with Jones and Sonnen. Not really mad as I think both guys bring a refreshing dynamic as coaches and personalities. It's the actual TUF competitors that I don't give a shit about. The talent pool is so watered down at this point and I can only watch a bunch of dudes who will never amount to anything in the UFC live in a house, train and fight for so long.

The actual fight is kind of a joke though. Sonnen is going to get knocked the fuck out and I don't care about how good his takedowns are. Jones is too big, long and strong for Chael to dominate him like he did Silva in their first fight.

I feel like the UFC has stretched itself to the point where it's gone from logical matchmaking and clear cut contenders to WWE style matchmaking and squash matches. Vitor gave it a good try, but had no business fighting Jones. Bonnar had no business fighting Silva. If Sonnen didn't have a mouth, no one would be happy seeing this fight based on Sonnen's record and style. Even his trash talk is pretty much the same old ish repeated.

All true but I don't see a problem with it right now. Sonnen and Jones are 2 of their top drawers in the company..people will pay for the fight..and the rating for TUF will increase . Really a win win.

Only letdown for me is the hype for a Bones/Silva matchup now taking a backseat. Come to think of it what if they would have done a Sonnen/Hendo coaching season and the winner would be #1 contender? That might've been good too

That's what's interesting and confusing now. Sonnen fights under the "Team Quest" banner, which Hendo started with Couture, but there are actually two incarnations of Team Quest. One is Hendo's, the other is Matt Lindland's. They even have two separate websites and rosters.

Chael fights under Matt Lindland's brand and Hendo is actually suing Lindland over the name and trademark because although Lindland joined them shortly after Couture and Hendo started the team and opened a gym with their blessing, he apparently trademarked the name without their knowledge or approval.

So was Jon Jones and Rashad Evans. 13 pounds of Gold can make the worst enemies out of the closest of teammates.

In hindsight, were they really that tight? Now Jones is pretty much saying the same ish about fighting Anderson that he said about fighting Rashad and they don't even train in the same city or live in the same country most of the time!

I can understand 38 year old Anderson Silva not wanting to fight a bigger, faster, stronger and younger version of himself (especially when he's only got two fights left on his current deal and could potentially slay one more Middleweight and GSP before retiring or sticking Dana up for more money), but Jones can't seriously call himself a business man and not want to take on the Greatest of All Time.

Imagine the paycheck and the publicity/hype that Nike would give to him if that fight were to take place in Texas Stadium. It would be one of the most profitable events in the history of all combat sports and probably end up second only to Pacquiao/Mayweather.

Recently retired light heavyweight Stephan Bonnar and heavyweight Dave Herman failed their respective UFC 153 postfight drug tests, a source told ESPN.com on Friday.
The source said that Bonnar tested positive for drostanolone, an anabolic steroid. Herman tested positive for marijuana metabolites.
UFC 153 took place in Rio de Janeiro on Oct. 13.
The failed postfight drug test was Bonnar's second. He tested positive for boldenone after a unanimous decision loss to Forrest Griffin at UFC 62 in August 2006.
Griffin defeated Bonnar by unanimous decision in April 2005, during "The Ultimate Fighter" Season 1 finale. That fight is often credited with being most responsible for attracting casual fight fans to mixed martial arts.
Marc Ratner, the UFC vice president of regulatory affairs, confirmed to ESPN.com that two fighters did fail their 153 postfight drug tests. But he would not say whether Bonnar and Herman were those fighters.
"When we go to these different countries, in order to grow the sport, without athletic commissions supervising, we self-regulate," Ratner said. "That's because of the experience we have in our company with regulators.
"There were 12 fights (at UFC 153) and we tested all 24 fighters for performance-enhancing drugs as well as recreational street drugs. Twenty-two fighters tested negative and two fighters tested positive."
Bonnar suffered a first-round TKO to middleweight champion Anderson Silva in the main event. They competed at light heavyweight.
A little more than two weeks after the loss, Bonnar, 35, announced his retirement from mixed martial arts. He finished his career with a record of 15-8.
Herman was submitted via armbar in the second round by Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira. It was the first time in his professional career that Herman (21-5) had been submitted.
The setback to Nogueira, a former UFC interim heavyweight titleholder, was Herman's third in a row.